Materials Sciences

Materials management deals with the research, development, manufacturing and processing of raw and industrial materials. Key aspects here are biological and medical issues, which play an increasingly important role in this field.

innovations-report offers in-depth articles related to the development and application of materials and the structure and properties of new materials.

Comprehensive electronic-structure methods

Comprehensive electronic-structure methods review featured in Nature Materials. Over the past 20 years, first-principles simulations have become powerful, widely used tools in many, diverse fields of science and engineering. From…

Study of promising photovoltaic material leads to discovery of a new state of matter

McGill University researchers gain new insight into the workings perovskites that could lead to more efficient and cheaper solar cells. Researchers at McGill University have gained new insight into the…

Unveiling what governs crystal growth

With brilliant colors and picturesque shapes, many crystals are wonders of nature. Some crystals are also wonders of science, with transformative applications in electronics and optics. Understanding how best to…

Better Understanding Membranes

A new class of membranes promises highly interesting applications in material separation, whether in biotechnology or water purification. The theoretical understanding of these polymer membranes is, however, still incomplete. Two…

A new spintronic phenomenon

Chiral-spin rotation found in non-collinear antiferromagnet. Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have discovered a new spintronic phenomenon – a persistent rotation of chiral-spin structure….

On the track of fast phase transformations

Phase transformation mechanisms and kinetics of a metallic glass defined over a wide temperature range. Metallic glasses are metastable materials characterised by special atomic arrangement and properties. They are generally…

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